Pocket-protecting device



. June 24, 1924- M. F. DERRICK POCKET PROTECTING DEVICE Filed Sept. 28,1923 Inv en'ron WWI MM 0 BY ATTORNEY 1 Patented June 24-, 1924.

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MILLARID 'FILLMDRE DERRICK, or. MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA.

POCKET-PROTECTING. DEVICE.

Application filed September 28 1923. Serial No. 665,394.

To all whom it may concern;

Be 1t known that I, ,MILLARD FILLMORE DERRICK, a subject of the King ofGreat Britain, and resident of the city of Mon-- treal, Province ofQuebec, Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Pocket-Protecting Devices; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to devices adapted to be attached t a pocket of agarment adjacent the top edge thereof for the purpose of checkingpilfering therefrom, and appertains particularly'to devices which, whilepermitting ingress to the pocket for depositing articles therein,areadapted to positively resist withdrawal therefrom without cognizanceof the owner.

This invention has especial reference to a pocket attachment including aclosure member for the mouth of thepocket and which offers yieldingresistance when ingress is being had to the pocket and positiveobstruction to the withdrawal therefrom, an object being to providemeans wholly contained within the pocket whereby unsightly appearance isavoided, for setting the closure member to an inoperative positionpermitting free authorized ingress to or withdrawal from the pocket.

Another object is to provide a .pronged pocket closure member which butyieldingly resists ingress to the pocket whilepresenting an impalingobstruction to withdrawal therefrom. i i

A further object is to provide a preventing pocket guard which embodiessimplified constructional features producing a fiat and compact articlecapable of convenient initial pocket without acting obstructionalfunction and which at the will Of'the owner can be'readily set topresentan impalingobstruction to withdrawal or returned to compactcompass occupying negligible space within the pocket. a

The above objects with advantageous features of the invention'will behereinafter more fully described in the following. specification andparticularly pointed out, in the appendedclaimsg J p For full:comprehension,however, of my invention, reference should be had to theaccompanying drawings forminga part of pilfering positioning within thethis specification, in which the same reference characters indicate thesame parts and wherein- Fig. 1 is a vertical section of my improvedguard, positioned within a pocket and in inoperative position; I

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 With the guard set to operativeposition; I

" Fig. 3 is a face view of the guard; and

Fig. 4 is a side elevation thereof, the dotted lines indicating theoperative adjustment of the impaling device.

Referring now to the drawings, 2 indicates a flat rectangular frame uponwhich is resiliently mounted for relative move ment an obstructingmember 3 adapted to, swing from the frame to a position inclinedoutwardly and downwardly therefrom, the member 3 being controlled byaslide l which is mounted upon and guided between the sides of the'frame,and is adapted to be moved over the latteracross the path of theoutwardly movable -member3 in the direction of its free end thusgradually drawing the free end of the member 3 inwardly towards theframe and finally positioning such member in substantial fiatparallelism with the frame. v The frame is adapted to be attached to thegarment pocket 5 Figs. 1 and 2, in any suitable manner adjacent themouth of the latter and'in the preferred manner illustrated the frame isclipped to the top edge of the'pocket extending inwardly and down wardlyinto the pocket therefrom, the flat frame with the member 3 held incollapsed position therewith as abovedescribed enabling the guard beingreadily slipped into the'pocket with practically no interference, theguard in its flat condition occupying such small space as to presentpractically no interference with the normal function of the pocket, theassembly of the slide upon the frame between thesides thereof avoid ingcumbersome attachments and enabling the guard being so enclosed by thepocket-as tominimize unsightly appearance.

To set the guard, a simple movement of the slide 4: back across theframe freesthe member 3 which by its resilient mounting automaticallysprings out into a downwardly and outwardly. inclinedposition obstruct-ving the mouth of the pocket as illustrated in Fig. 2;.the resilientmounting of member 3 enabling'it to give 'inwardlytowardsthe frame 2when a hand is inserted into the pocket but the support offered to themember 3 by the frame produces a stilf. positive metal, narrow side andbottom margins 6 being bent-at right angles to form sides and the topturned rearwardly and bent inwardly to form a clip 7 for taking over thetop edge of the pocket, the natural resiliency of the metal enabling theclip to securely hold the material therebetween and the inturned sidesof the frame. 7 low frame thus formed constitutes a receptacle or casingfor the obstruction member 3 which consists of a plurality of prongsfixed at their upper ends to a pin'8 transversely across the frame nearthe top there of and under the clip 7 the ends of the pin being mountedin the sides 6 of the frame. These prongs are of slightly less lengththan the frame and extended longitudinally of the latter being spacedtransversely of the frame and in register with longitudinal apertures 9formed in the face of the frame, a spring 10 encircling the pin 8 andenclosed at its ends respectively upon the frame and pin causing the pinto rotate and urge the prongs outwardly through the apertures into aposition inclined downwardly and outwardly from the frame.

The slide4 consists of a cross piece located between the prongs 3 andthe interior face of the frame, therends of the crosspiece projectingslightly through slots 11 in the sides 6 of the frame. The side slots 11extend longitudinally throughout practically the full length of theframe sides and by means of the projecting ends the slide can be movedlongitudinally across the frame from top to bottom thereof engage theprongs and swing them inwardly through the apertures against theinfluence of their spring and into the frame where they are accommodatedwithin the compass of the frame thus achieving a collapsing of the guardinto a flat article of small dimensions. lVith-the slide at the bottomof the frame the prongs are held within the frame permitting authorizedentry into the pocket and when the slide is moved to the top of theframe permitting the spring urged prongs to protrude so that whileyielding before a pilfering hand inserted 'into the pocket would causesuch hand to be impaled upon withdrawal, the slide constitutes anabutment spanning the prongs and against which the latter are bolsteredin their positive resistance to withdrawal of a hand from the pocket.

From the above it will be seen that I have provided a snugly constructedguard The shah maintained protruding in the path of a V withdrawing handfrom the pocket.

lVhat I claim is as follows:

1. In a protecting device for a garment pocket, the combination of amember for attachment to the pocket, a relatively movable member, aresilient mounting for the relatively movable member and urging thelatter to project from the attaching member into a pocket obstructingposition-and means separate from the resilient mounting and forpositively holding the resiliently mounted member out of the pocketobstructing position.

2. In a protecting device for a garment pocket, the combination of aframe whereby the device is attached to the pocket, a pocket obstructingmember upon theframe, a resilient mounting for the member urging thelater to project outwardly from the frame in pocket obstruct-ingposition and means separate from the resilient mounting and forpositively holding the resiliently mounted member close to the frame outof pocket obstructing position.

3. In a protecting device for a garment pocket, the combination of aframe adapted to be attached to the interior of a pocket, a member uponthe frame, a yielding mountingbetween the frame and member urging thelatter from the. frame into obstructingposition across the pocket andmeans separate from the yielding mounting and adapted to be adjusted toa position from swinging outwardly.

4. In a protecting device for a garment pocket, the combination of anattaching frame for fastening the device to the pocket, a member uponthe frame, a yielding mounting between the frame and member to urge thelatter outwardly and downwardly from the frame in obstructing positionin the mouth of the pocket to resist withdrawal therefrom and a holdingdevice separate from the yielding mounting and lying in the path of theoutwardly urged member to bolster the latter against withdrawal strainwhen in its outwardly inclined position and adapted to. be adjusted tofold the obstructingmember against the attaching member and hold thelatter in such folded position.

5. In a protecting device for a garment pocket, the combination of amember for attaching the device to the pocket and a pronged memberyieldingly mounted upon the attaching member to project downwardly andoutwardly therefrom into the pocket space and an abutment memberspanholding the yieldingly mounted memberning the pronged member andslidably mounted to move longitudinally over the prongs in a linetangential to the downwardly and outwardly projecting pronged member.

6. In a protecting device for a garment pocket, the combination of amember for attaching the device to the pocket, a member mounted upon theattaching member and adapted to project outwardly and clownwardlytherefrom into the pocket space and a slide upon the attaching memberadapted to be moved to fold the projecting member into flat positionwith relation to the -attaching member.

7. In a protecting device for a garment pocket, the combination of aframe adapted to be attached to the pocket and a pronged memberyieldingly mounted upon the attaching member to project downwardly andoutwardly therefrom into the pocket space and a slide carried by theframe and adapted to be moved to fold the pronged member into flatrelation with the frame.

8. A protecting device for a garment pocket and including a member forattaching the device to the pocket, a pronged member mounted upon theattaching member,

means for constantly urging the pronged member into a positionprojecting outwardly from the attaching member into pocket obstructingposition and a restraining element for folding the pronged member into.nonobstructing position and maintaining the outward urge thereof.

9. In a protecting device for a garment pocket, the combination of aflat frame having apertures therein, and adapted to be at tached to thepocket, a pin extending transversely across the frame near its upperend, prongs carried by the pin and extending downwardly therefrom inregister with the apertures in the frame and a spring for yieldinglyurging the prongs to protrude from said apertures in a downwardly andoutwardly inclined position with respect to ing apertures therein andadapted to be attached t0 the pocket, apin extending transversely acrossthe frame near its upper end, prongs carried by the pin and extendingdownwardly therefrom in register with the apertures in the frame and inflat relation to the latter, a spring for yieldingly urging the prongsto protrude from said apertures in a downwardly and outwardly inclinedposition with respect to the frame and a slide mounted intermediate theframe and the prongs and adapted to move longitudinally of the framefrom top to bottom thereof and move the prongs back through theapertures against the influence of the spring and into their positionextending downwardly from the pin in flat relation to the frame.

11. In aprotecting device for a garment pocket, the combination with aflat frame with longitudinal apertures in the face thereof, such framebeing composed of single piece of metalhaving its side margins bent atright thereto and formed with longitudinal slots and its topmargin'turned baclrwardly and inwardly to form a clip for attachment ofthedevice, to the pocket, a pin extending transversely of the frame atthe top beneath the clip and mounted at its ends in the bent sidemargins, prongs carried by the pins and extending downwardly therefromin register with the apertures, a spring encircling the pin and enclosedat its ends respectively upon the frame and the pin, and a cross-pieceextending transversely across the frame between the latter and theprongs, the ends of the cross-piece projecting through and beingslidablymounted in the slots in the bent side margins of the frame.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

MILL ARD FILLMORE DERRICK.

